If you had a busy week and need to catch up, here’s our recap of tech stories you may have missed the week of 04/18/22!

IT Operations

• The hard truth of IT metrics

• New Gartner report shows massive growth in the database market, fueled by cloud

• Modernizing IT Operations With AIOp

• Data quality can make or break efforts to bring artificial intelligence to IT operations

Microsoft

• Ease the burden of managing and protecting endpoints with Microsoft advanced solutions

• The business case for endpoint management modernization according to Microsoft

• Released: 2022 H1 Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server

• The future of compliance and data governance is here: Introducing Microsoft Purview

• Microsoft: We're boosting our bug bounties for these high-impact security flaws

• Use Terraform to deploy Azure landing zones

VMware

• VMware Multi-Cloud Briefing: April 2022

• Protect your Application on VMware Tanzu with TrilioVault for Kubernetes

• Enforcing Multi-Cloud Security

Cisco

• Cisco Secure Endpoint Shines in the 2022 MITRE® Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation

• Worst-Case Scenarios: What Happens If You Don’t Do DevSecOps?

AWS

• Build your data pipeline in your AWS modern data platform using AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, and dbt Core

• Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference – Machine Learning Inference without Worrying about Servers

• Announcing the General Availability of AWS Amplify Studio

• Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is generally available

• Automatically Detect Operational Issues in Lambda Functions with Amazon DevOps Guru for Serverless
  
  

Security

• Ransomware attacks are hitting universities hard, and they are feeling the pressure

• Cybercrime threatens business growth. Take these steps to mitigate your risk

• Cybersecurity Advisory warns of Russian-backed cyber threats to infrastructure

• Cybercriminals are finding new ways to target cloud environments

• Attackers unleash LockBit ransomware on US government computers

• FBI warning: Ransomware gangs are going after this lucrative but unexpected target

• Hive hackers are exploiting Microsoft Exchange Servers in ransomware spree

• Report: Many SMBs wouldn’t survive a ransomware attack

• US critical infrastructures targeted by complex malware

• Five Eyes advisory warns more malicious Russian cyber activity incoming